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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN W. BOUGHTON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SCREEN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,232, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed June 21, 1889. Serial No. 315,041. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it' known that I, JOHN IV. BOUGHTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in the cityand county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful linprovement in Screens, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a screen having novel means for securing a frame thereto, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

Figure l represents a perspective View of a screen embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the frame thereof. Fig. 3 represents a vertical section of the screen.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a screen, which, excepting the features of my invention applied thereto, is of usual construction.

I designates the frame which is fitted to said screen and has connected with it a piece O of muslin, canvas, or other fabric or material, which is stretched on said frame and has its ends tacked, gummed, or otherwise fast-v ened thereto, said frame, with its attached piece O, forming a panel for the screen. rIhe sides of the frame are primarily bowed inwardly, as seen in Fig. 2, and the piece of fabric O secured thereto. The frame is then located in the screen and nailed or screwed thereto, and the sides of the same are sprung against the frame, thus straightening said sides and tightly stretching the piece of fabric thereon. A picture or ornament D may no w be placed or formed on the piece of fabric O within the frame B, and the same may be painted er worked upon said piece 0r produced on another piece of material and attached to said piece C in any suitable manner. The back of the piece C may also be painted or ornamcnted, as at F, it being noticed that the piece C is at the middle of the frame 0f the screen, or approximately so, and presents both of its sides, thus obviating the necessity of a piece of material for each face of the screen, the edges of said piece being concealed between the contiguous parts of the frame and screen.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A screen having an inner frame with a netting secured to its sides, an outer frame in which said inner frame is secured, and nails or screws passing through the sides of said inner frame into the inner side of said outer frame, the sides of said inner frame being bowed before being inserted in the outer frame and straightened by being secured t0 said outer frame, said parts being combined substantially as described.

JOHN IV. BOUGHTON.

IVitnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, .IAMEs F. KELLY. 

